Under Kim Jong Un’s rule, North Korea has made strides to improve the quality and diversity of its propaganda output, seeking to appeal in particular to youth who have been exposed to outside culture.

But despite all these efforts to produce new content, close monitoring of DPRK media shows that its propagandists still rely on an old standby — reruns.

North Korean propaganda regularly recycles material in the same or slightly altered form, almost never revealing that the content is years or decades old.

In part, this stems from a desire to reuse material that remains of good quality, but